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KidsOffTheCouch.com offers a free, weekly e-newsletter that provides families with fresh ideas for getting kids off the couch and into their city. The secret? A bowl of popcorn and a memorable movie or media experience. Like a spoonful of sugar, the magic of a good media will lure kids to cultural outings that are more than typical kid fare. Road-tested on real kids, past adventures have helped kids ponder the universe at planetariums, explore ethnic neighborhoods, and learn how the local newspaper lands on their doorsteps each morning. A subscription includes monthly Special Editions highlighting vacation ideas, sweepstakes, giveaways and film screening invitations. Primary Format : Education Technology Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Los Angeles State/Province : CA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Kids Off The Couch Podcasts Methings.com listings of Kids Off The Couch Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Kids Off The Couch A Brief Introduction to KidsOffTheCouch.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bringing History To Life: Movies That Teach + Family Movie Night With kids back in school, it is often hard to carve out family time. Since there’s nothing as cozy after a long week of classes as a Family Movie Night, we have created a list of great films that will complement your kids’ history courses. Take a moment to choose movies that help [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Past Roars to Life: The Land Before Time + Walking With Dinosaurs = Kids Off the Couch Visit www.kidsoffthecouch.com  for a subscriber discount to the show, which is only in Los Angeles for THREE DAYS — September 25 through 28, and for details on the new Dinosaur Encounters show at the Natural History Museum for younger dino-fans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life is a Highway: Cars + Automotive Museum = Kids Off The Couch Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introducing Paul Newman to Your Family Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown + Corn Maze = Kids Off The Couch Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HOT TOPIC: How Does Your Family Deal with Princess-Mania?   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Snow Dogs + Hitting the Slopes = Kids Off The Couch No matter where you live, kids and snow go together like hands and gloves. Whether your kids are starting out with a pizza-pie wedge between their first skis or just biding their time until their next snowboarding trip to a serious mountain, getting some slope savvy at your local ski resort [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All The President’s Men + Visiting Your Local Newspaper = Kids Off The Couch Kids who expect a multitude of information to magically appear from their computers don’t always understand the power of a free press. Watching All The President’s Men as a family opened up a conversation about how reporters follow a story and tell the truth, which makes this movie newsworthy in our household. It was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kids Off The Couch Special Subscriber Discount to The Geffen Playhouse In a mesmerizing one-man show, Darryl Van Leer channels historical figures such as Muddy Waters, Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr. and makes them come alive. Our kids loved how Van Leer set the stage as a folksy storyteller and then seamlessly shifted into each character using only simple props [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Snow Dogs + Hitting the Slopes = Kids Off The Couch No matter where you live, kids and snow go together like hands and gloves. Whether your kids are starting out with a pizza-pie wedge between their first skis or just biding their time until their next snowboarding trip to a serious mountain, getting some slope savvy at your local ski resort [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All The President’s Men + Visiting Your Local Newspaper = Kids Off The Couch Kids who expect a multitude of information to magically appear from their computers don’t always understand the power of a free press. Watching All The President’s Men as a family opened up a conversation about how reporters follow a story and tell the truth, which makes this movie newsworthy in our household. It was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kids Off The Couch Special Subscriber Discount to The Geffen Playhouse In a mesmerizing one-man show, Darryl Van Leer channels historical figures such as Muddy Waters, Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr. and makes them come alive. Our kids loved how Van Leer set the stage as a folksy storyteller and then seamlessly shifted into each character using only simple props [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown + Corn Maze = Kids Off The Couch Our kids’ faces lit up like Jack-o-Lanterns when we told them we were upping the pumpkin ante this year by letting them loose in a Corn Maze. After sampling the delicious produce, we set off into plants that reached high above our heads. We bonded together over a map, trying to figure our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HOT TOPIC: How Does Your Family Deal with Princess-Mania?   With this week’s much heralded re-release of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, Princess Aurora is sure to win over another generation of little girls, just in time for the Halloween costume rush. What’s a parent to do? We know that most of our kids just can’t resist the allure of those Disney dames strutting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Brief Introduction to KidsOffTheCouch.com Hello and Welcome to the Podcast Introduction for Kids Off The Couch – a free, “make your life easier” parenting tool. Staying connected to today’s busy kids who are balancing school, sports and social schedules, is a challenge most parents face. Two Middle School moms have launched a website, www.kidsofftthecouch.com that gives parents great ideas for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bringing History To Life: Movies That Teach + Family Movie Night With kids back in school, it is often hard to carve out family time. Since there’s nothing as cozy after a long week of classes as a Family Movie Night, we have created a list of great films that will complement your kids’ history courses. Take a moment to choose movies that help [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Past Roars to Life: The Land Before Time + Walking With Dinosaurs = Kids Off the Couch Are your kids dino-obsessed? Do you remember when they read Danny the Dinosaur and dreamt of riding a dinosaur’s back? Our kids slept with their dinosaur books, memorizing each name — Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus Rex — and have always wondered what it would be like to meet a real life dinosaur. But wonder [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life is a Highway: Cars + Automotive Museum = Kids Off The Couch Cars is one of those great family films that lures everyone from Grandpa to toddler with its old-fashioned values, cool car stars, hilarity and history. Our kids loved Lightning McQueen, the red-hot rookie race car with a big ego, who pulls off the fast lane and learns that sometimes you have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introducing Paul Newman to Your Family We shed real tears at the loss of Paul Newman, whose legendary looks and powerful screen presence dominated the movies for years and whose charitable work (through the Hole in the Wall camps for seriously ill children and Newman’s Own) set an elegant example of how one man can make the world a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website